REQUIP DOSING GUIDELINES

[buglegs]

Good Morning All, can someone please tell me what is the maximum daily recommended dosing is for Requip? Where is this dosing information found, what guidelines? Thanks for any help..

[Rustsmith]

The maximum dose for Requip is 4mg/day, but the experts prefer it to be limited to no more than 2mg/day.

You can find this in Table 2 of the document that the link in my signature points to. That document has loads of additional information about the proper treatment of RLS and is something that you may want to share with your doctor.

[Frunobulax]

The maximum dose for Requip is 4mg/day, but the experts prefer it to be limited to no more than 2mg/day.

Buchfuhrers book (that I believe to be one of the best resources on drugs out there) even recommends 1mg/d as maximum.

@buglegs As with other dopamine agonists, Requip will work in fairly small doses. If you need larger doses then you're probably already in augmentation.

[Rustsmith]

Buchfuhrers book (that I believe to be one of the best resources on drugs out there) even recommends 1mg/d as maximum.

Dr Buchfuhrer has always recommended lower doses for all of the dopamine agonists than the other experts, but apparently some of the other doctors push for guidelines that are closer to the FDA max numbers, which are ancient when compared to recent studies on augmentation. Dr Buhfuhrer's practice is made up in large part of post augmentation RLS patients who had their doctors running their dose for Requip or Mirapex beyond the FDA limits for RLS and up to the limits for Parkinson's before declaring that they didn't have anything else that they could do to help their patient (who was now in deep trouble). Many of these patients had to find Dr B on their own and many would travel long distances to see him. As a result of all this seeming malpractice when it comes to over prescribing DAs, Dr. B prefers to keep his patients on very low doses to keep them out of this trouble.